Buffing Sand Wraith: Some suggestions

[TheDefqon]

I love the hero design of Sand Wraith and would like to see him more often as a viable pick. Unfortunately this hero is known to be very difficult to balance.
I had some thoughts which should be looked at independently from each other, but some of them may be done combined though.



#1 Increasing the damage reduction of Dissipate from 4/8/12/16% to 10/14/18/22%

#2 Change Dissipate so that it deals 75% of the reduced damage as True AOE damage
-> With 3000hp and 22% damage reduction this would result in a maximum of 495 true damage

#3 Add +2 magic armor per level of Dissipate (as Devourer's Cadaver Armor, but with +2 instead of +1 per level)

#4 Add a minus armor aura to Dissipate

#5 Enemy hero's effected by Desert's Curse are inflicted with -1/-2/-3/-4 armor

#6 Add a -1/-1/-3/-5 armor debuff to Deserted. Lasts 1.5 seconds

#7 Add a -3/-6/-9/-12% movement speed slow debuff to Deserted

#8 When Sand Wraith casts Mirage he gets +20 armor and magic armor for 2.5 seconds. Making it easier for him to escape from ganks or initiate in team fights

#9 When Sand Wraith teleports to an enemy via Mirage, the targeted enemy gets silenced and perplexed for 3 seconds

#10 Casting single target spells on Sand Wraith returns 50% of the damage done



Please vote for one or more suggestions if you like them and leave your comments on them!
Any numbers may be changed. These are just general thoughts.

Best regards.

[Uroefl]

Actually I think all those things you just mentioned are to overpowered for so much reasons, but the reason why I post is not that.
He's already buffed recently and he has a really good winning % at this moment, you just need to know how to play him.

[song_tinh]

Why there is no Option "None of these above" :/ ?

[_Scathach_]

I think some of his ideas are good, right ideas, maybe a bit OP. +1 he needs buffs, +1 you have good buff ideas, -1 your ideas a OP. I think you're on the right track, but I don't think sw needs too much.

[Daaaaaaaark]

i find sw is a very inactive hero
all he does is farm and in teamfights he just runs around and tanks a lot - nothing special u can do with him tbh
he needs something that makes him exciting to play something completely new (for example another active spell instead of one of his passives)

[TheDefqon]

Why there is no Option "None of these above" :/ ?

I actually only added a poll to get an overview which ideas are more in the right right direction and which are less (Also for someone who does not want to comment, but would make a vote). So it's not supposed to be a do it/don't do it poll.

[JimmyRaynor]

Some good ideas, maybe need some work. My biggest issue is with #10, and because of 2 heroes in particular. Can you guess? Why it's witch slayerand pyromancer of course! What happens when one of those 2 ults sw? Taking 500 magic damage when you kill someone is not really ideal. Maybe though you could have it be 100% if fb ults him when his hp is below 10% :P

[TheDefqon]

~Bump~

[Jhamin_Libre]

i find sw is a very inactive hero
all he does is farm and in teamfights he just runs around and tanks a lot - nothing special u can do with him tbh

yes cause sand wraith is just a bland, boring, useless hero. we need more heros with no weaknesses to make this game interesting

0/10

[_BIGboss_]

Why there is no Option "None of these above" :/ ?
that, please don't buff sw only bcz u don't play with him, if u use the spells correctly and be a "carry" u will see the true power of sw.

he dont need any buff

[TheDefqon]

that, please don't buff sw only bcz u don't play with him, if u use the spells correctly and be a "carry" u will see the true power of sw.

he dont need any buff
I don't want to see him buffed, because he is picked rarely. Yes he is strong, but picking him has a high risk to not get farm early enough to stay in the game. A team that managed to get farm on a SW and did not get too far behind should be paid off more.

[Skyve]

I would suggest you try to make your suggestions conform to the suggestion forum rules, and maybe describe the reasoning why you think your ideas are good and should be implemented.